Global Food & Culture Festival 2025 at Darden
The 2025 Global Food & Culture Festival brought students, faculty, staff and guests together in Flagler Court for an afternoon celebrating the international diversity of the Darden community.
Organized by the Global Business and Culture Club, the annual event featured a mix of home-cooked dishes from dozens of countries and live performances highlighting music, dance and fashion from around the world.
With international students representing nearly a third of the student body, the festival serves as an opportunity for classmates to share traditions and connect across programs and cultures.
People moved between tables sampling food, chatting with students about the origins of their recipes and gathering to watch performances throughout the afternoon.
Highlights from the festival are included below and here.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences. Darden’s graduate degree programs (Full-Time MBA, Part-Time MBA, Executive MBA, MSBA and Ph.D.) and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact. Darden’s top-ranked faculty, renowned for teaching excellence, inspires and shapes modern business leadership worldwide through research, thought leadership and business publishing. Darden has Grounds in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area and a global community that includes 20,000 alumni in 90 countries. Darden was established in 1955 at the University of Virginia, a top public university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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